It also emerged this week that in the early days of the Fukushima crisis in March 2011, the Obama administration expressed concerns that "entrenched bureaucratic behavior would exacerbate an unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan and called on Tokyo to remove those barriers to avert a catastrophe". Foreign Office records, obtained by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper under freedom of information requests, show President Obama was disturbed by the Japanese government's apparent lack of urgency over the unfolding crisis and how red-tape would hinder offers of international assistance. In a recent interview, Naoto Kan, the Prime Minister at the time of the disaster, confirmed the US's fears. “I think the president was feeling what I was feeling. Accurate information did not reach me. Information conduits were clogged up,” he said.

I had anticipated this as soon as the disaster ocured and written in my blogpost here. It seems well almost prophetic but sad...We must shun al use of...

I had anticipated this as soon as the disaster ocured and written in my blogpost here. It seems well almost prophetic but sad...We must shun al use of nuclear energy and weapos. Humanity must realise that it will annihlate itself needlessly.http://mehernewspappar.blogspot.com/2011/03/post-japan-earthquake-and.html